Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey Review

Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey is made using 100% winter white wheat and on the whole it’s a fairly rare release as not a whole lot of people do a wheat whiskey. Heaven Hill has a wheat whiskey and a couple of craft guys have one and that’s it. There isn’t a huge amount of competition in this particular category and so it’s nice to see one of the better craft whiskey distilleries out there doing one.

OVERALL
Despite its lightness, the Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey a quite nice with some sweet notes that get counterweighted by some grain and wood notes. If it was at a higher proof it might be a lot better, but here at 80 proof it feels a bit flat.

Seriously, just a bit bolder and this would be a good whiskey. This poor little guy is begging and pleading to be bottle at 46% at the very least and allowed to show even more what it’s capable of delivering. At least it doesn’t have a heavy saw dust character like many craft whiskeys and it’s balanced enough that if a friend poured me a glass I wouldn’t complain. Take that for what it’s worth.